Northy's Disappearance

*fist bump* see you dude

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Oh and btw can you make a azorious control edh? I'd love to see what you come up with!

I'm with Gothy on this one, don't work too hard!!!

We'll all anxiously await the return of the great Northy!!

Good luck brother!

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gothey i'll do his job

Might as well use this profile for something...

wtf does that mean

As I said above, I'll miss you, old troll.

I guess I have to. But don't worry, I'll be back.
: D

Don't say that, this a horror movie

Terminator.

No, the hills have eyes

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Can you explain to me that entire comment? :)

i hoppe north hass nice winter hollyday chirstmast, all atheist kids say religion is bad but we resaon why christmost is holyday, gg
- may god bless ur'e souls

Dude please for the love of all things sacred learn to fucking spell

His name is Ugandan Porno... Hah.

B/R control as requested.
http://www.mtgvault.com/killjoysj3/decks/rakdos-control/

good to see you around its been awhile

Eh you can't get rid of me =]

Never gone, just remarkably busy.

^ that guy.

edh duels is a great idea id like to see some edh duels also some guild duels would be cool

EDH Duel decks incoming.
Kiitoksia ystäväiseni. Vaultissa pääsee harvemmin Suomen kieltä hyödyntämään.

Recreation of the Dragon's maze EDH, your commander is the guild leader but you have the champion in the command zone too (but when they die they got to the yard)

Recreation of the Dragon's maze EDH, your commander is the guild leader but you have the champion in the command zone too (but when they die they got to the yard)

Budget and Griselbrand in the same sentence don't usually work unless that sentence is 'No dude, you can't build a budget tier 1 G-brand legacy deck.

1-i didn't say it had to have griselbrand
2-does not need to be tier 1. i just want to see what northern comes up with

Glass Cannon needs a huge pay off legendary creature (if the Goryo's package) which tend to be expensive

1 griselbrand usually runs around $15, and I'm not saying that the cannon needs to be 80% effective, something like 20% is fine. and yes, goryo is very not budget (however animate dead runs about .87 i believe)

$15 isn't cheap just saying and why go for a deck that fails 80% of the time???

$15 isn't cheap just saying and why go for a deck that fails 80% of the time???

heh. no, 15 for a card isn't cheap but A) budget for me is under $50, and B) even if it fails 80% of the time, it succeeds 20%, and as i'm not super concerned with tournaments (this a for-fun deck) that is perfectly acceptable

Ah I see, I was talking in like the way that northy does budget, so I think we weren't reading off the same page!! I think if you're looking at a larger budget, say $100 you could make a pretty awesome deck

i was thinking under $50 for the deck (with 1 griselbrand thats $35 to play around with), though it could be a charbelcher combo sort of thing too, griselbrand is optional. glass cannon just means t1 combo potential that is usually pretty fragile. the ones i have the most experience with are the reanimators with griselbrand but the deck i am looking for does not need that

Here ya go.
http://www.mtgvault.com/killjoysj3/decks/glass-cannon-thingy/

I thought that happened back in 2013?

We need a 2nd hot page entitled "Northy".

What you actually need to do is a) focussing more on all the other fantastic decks here and/or b) make some decks yourself. I like what Northy is doing but let's face it - the attention and praise he gets has meanwhile outgrown the actual quality of content. People flock to him because it's him and that's it. Here is his formula: Take any theme (usually a tribe or game mechanic), then add cards that fit the theme and more or less follow the mana curve until the deck is almost filled up (but avoiding expensive cards), then he adds some cheap staple cards (which are usually the same). Which is fine. But he did that 1000 times by now. 1000 times! How many times does he have to demonstrate to you how the card search works and that Putrefy is a nice removal spell that doesn't cost much money? By now his followers should be able to follow this simple formula themselves. At least that's what one would think.
Also, Northy is getting a bit lazy. Oftentimes his decks lack crucial elements or other things that could easily be fixed even within his budget limitations. Which, I cannot stess enough, is not to put Northy or his work down - anybody would get sloppy after churning out 1000 items of the same flavour. It still works (measured by likes, comments and front page appearances) so why should he change anything? But this is the thing, though, it's kind of a feedback loop that keeps everybody involved stagnant.

What I am saying is: Thank you Northy but it is time for everyone involved to move on. Which doesn't mean stop making decks (Northy) or stop checking out his new decks (everybody else). But it would be healthy for everybody involved and the site as a whole if users would pay attention to the "new" or "unloved" section here and then or would use the deck search to check out older decks (tags help!). Instead of treating the "hot" page as the only page there is. (And the site owners would do well if they made the "new" or "unloved" list the front page for that matter). Start commenting on other decks, get some more people involved, exchange deck critiques to keep this site alive. Because, as it is, if Northy drops Magic tomorrow, most of you would run circles like a headless chicken :)
I mean, he has a break from the internet now and STILL he has 2 decks and this article on the front page ... and yes, I am aware that this very post of mine helps keeping this particular article in the "hot" section, but that's not the point. I honestly don't begrudge Northy the attention he gets but pity all those deck builders out there that have created some amazing works but get buried here without notice. Most recent example for me would be Beowulf.

To be fair with the decks not leaving for a while, some of mine are still there from the very start of my article writing, but to be honest, you're right, it was better when New was the main page, no idea why it changed!

You've got to give him some creativity credit on his card choice for this article, though.

Uses the same one every time he leaves lol xD

Well this is the first time I've seen him leave... haven't been on the site that long.

Ye its annual

I, too, wish that New was the main page for the site.

It does really tell about the site when I'm referred to as an expert of standard and modern... noooo I can only just take down an FNM in a particularly competitive city that is no way near expert, I'm not exactly GerryT, hey I would take the foil goyf over burst lightning xD

I happen to have a few modern decks that you could help me test. :) mr expert.

I wish I was an expert xD get the card support to build my beloved Tron! What you testing?

Illusions and something similar to deadeye ale (I think)

So Abzan basically? Why illusions and not merfolk?

Orzhov, not abzan. Illusions have worked well for me in the past and are one of my favorite creature types (and you know I'm not a heavy creature player). I don't have the cards for merfolk.

If you have Black and White, you get Green for the Rhino, goyf and decay XD

You going to send me some :)

$$$ Money, money, money.

If I had them, I'd probably be playing Abzan in modern xD

you cant do orzhov tokens budget that means leaving out so much bitterblossom is not cheap and it is 1 of the best token cards
this is my try for a competitive token build if you can budget it grats to you
http://www.mtgvault.com/vaan104/decks/tokens-ftw/

Most decks people are saying it makes no sense to build in budget, might as well just build up to a competitive and solid deck

very true budget is a nice place to start but you gotta add some $ to them most of the time you can build infect pretty cheap both 60 card modern or edh same with exalted I own edh of both and they are under $60 land improvements can bump them up but still not bad

http://www.mtgvault.com/vaan104/decks/fast-rakdos/
I just built that as a modern competitive deck that is more budget I own most of the cards so I should be able to play it soon

Why don't you build one yourself then? You are the only one that knows your cardpool.

Just card search dragons. You can always get help later if needed.

If I didn't already have this one you'd be out of luck my friend...but there you go...dragons...

http://www.mtgvault.com/granflux/decks/bamdragons/

Not modern legal but beggars can't be choosers...

Come on ... there must be hundreds of dragon decks here in Vault. And Thundermaw Hellkite isn't exactly a dragon with a special ability that you need to build a deck around. Heck, with his casting cost, p/t and abilities you can play him in any mid-range aggrodeck.

Definitely agree there, in my honest opinion he's not even really that good...yes, the implications of his potential can be staggering...but just playing thunder maw hellkite doesnt do much..ever..

Could literally look at any mardu dragons build, but thundermaw is pretty awesome, it usually gets played in Jeskai Control/Midrange in modern but seriously, its so easy, I use Decked builder when brewing, you just pop in what you're looking for and press the card when you want to put it in the deck, gatherer is fine for this too- any tribal deck can be mocked up in 10 minutes with a simple search, if you want to net deck a deck that's going to 100% win you games in a tournament or at the kitchen table, SCG or MTGGoldfish are your best bet

Yeah, but for some reasons people don't do that. Otherwise Northy wouldn't be such a celebrity ;)

I don't know why not, Travis Woo does awesome reasonably budget decks, and his could actually break even in a tournament, its no fun when people role over you, even if you just play for banter or for stories

Welcome to the vault Ben.

Hey thanks, glad i found the vault.

Hi Ben, what tournament formats do they play and the best way to really pick up a deck and win with it is to know it inside out, I can mock you up something that will crush them, from what you play it would probably be mono-red!

Welcome to the vault =]

Gothy! If you don't mind would you pleeeease do that for me? I'm an open book, so please work your "magic" lol. Im willing to learn as much as possible and would like as much advice, help, opinions, suggestions, as the community is willing to share. Im looking for a few decks to buy on here to get me started, n with your guy`s help ill kick some ass! Thanks again.

Welcome back dude.

NW, when you get a chance will you read my bigger post n hit me up. Id like to get to know you and be your pupil lol

Ben, out of curiosity, do you have skype? I'm here if needed.

Yeah, I would say the same. If you have Skype, it will make everything more simple.